Art Through the Ages

with Andrea Gerring,  MFA Art History

Second Monday of the Month 
(February - May)

Join Andrea Gerring, NCMC art history instructor, to view and discuss Building the Great Cathedrals.  

Building the Great Cathedrals

Monday, March 12 5:30 - 7:30pm 
(Guests may bring light refreshments to share)  Seating is limited.  RSVP  (231) 838-6460 or email realpeoplemedia@gmail.com.  Suggested donation $4

Program Description

Take a dazzling architectural journey inside those majestic marvels of Gothic architecture, the great cathedrals of Chartres, Beauvais and other European cities. Carved from 100 million pounds of stone, some cathedrals now teeter on the brink of catastrophic collapse. To save them, a team of engineers, architects, art historians, and computer scientists searches the naves, bays, and bell-towers for clues. NOVA investigates the architectural secrets that the cathedral builders used to erect their towering, glass-filled walls and reveals the hidden formulas drawn from the Bible that drove medieval builders ever upward.

Generation M
Monday, March 19

5:30 - 7:30pm  (Guests may bring light refreshments to share)  Seating is limited.  RSVP  (231) 838-6460 or email realpeoplemedia@gmail.com.  Suggested donation $4

Join Dar Charlebois,  community prevention coordinator of the Women's Resource Center for a discussion following the film.  Charlebois leads the WRC's community violence prevention team, in addition to providing sexual assault prevention education curriculum to area schools.

Film Summary

Despite the achievements of the women's movement over the past four decades, misogyny remains a persistent force in American culture. In this important documentary, Thomas Keith, professor of philosophy at California State University-Long Beach, looks specifically at misogyny and sexism in mainstream American media, exploring how negative definitions of femininity and hateful attitudes toward women get constructed and perpetuated at the very heart of our popular culture.

The film tracks the destructive dynamics of misogyny across a broad and disturbing range of media phenomena: including the hyper-sexualization of commercial products aimed at girls, the explosion of violence in video games aimed at boys, the near-hysterical sexist rants of hip-hop artists and talk radio shock jocks, and the harsh, patronizing caricatures of femininity and feminism that reverberate throughout the mainstream of American popular culture.

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Film & Discussion Series Starts Monday!

Art Through the Ages
with Andrea Gerring,  MFA Art History
Second Monday of the Month (February - May)
Join us for a historical look at art beginning with the Parthenon. After watching the selected film, participants will be led in a discussion by Andrea Gerring, North Central Michigan college instructor.

Secrets of the Parthenon 
Monday, February 13
5:30 - 7:30pm  (Guests may bring light refreshments to share)  Seating is limited.  RSVP  (231) 838-6460.  Suggested donation $4

For 25 centuries the Parthenon has been shot at, set on fire, rocked by earthquakes, looted for its sculptures, almost destroyed by explosion, and disfigured by well-meaning renovations. It has gone from temple, to church, to mosque, to munitions dump.  What could be next? How about a scientific search for the secrets of its incomparable beauty and astonishingly rapid construction? With unprecedented access, NOVA unravels the architectural and engineering mysteries of this celebrated ancient temple.